Unless your shopping was all beer, chips, and magazines, it should be obvious that you are indeed feeding a family with the money - whether it is a family of 1, 2, or 6. All that would change in that case is how soon you have to shop again.

Small threadjack, but that made me fantasize about just buying beer, chips and magazines. No veggies, no tp, no cleaning stuff. Forget special vitamins for kid, biola for the dog, meat meat meat for the husband! All the dumb things needed to keep 3 people and a huge dog going can be forgotten! Just beer, chips and magazines! Yeah!

I saw a setup on a show once. A really young couple with small baby (all actors) go through the checkout with beer, baby food and nappies. When the cashier tells them how much it is, the couple realise they don't have enough money. They whisper between themselves for a moment and then tell the cashier that they'll just take the beer. The look on the cashier's face each time they did it was priceless!

tabby1

I like friendly cashiers but I don't like being asked "why" I am buying something or having them make a big deal out of something I've purchased.

Many occasions I've had clerks make comments if I buy a few magazines. I don't really want to have to defend a purchase. They should be pleased that I'm buying anything at the store.

I checked out at the grocery once and the young man bagging picked up a feminine product that I had purchased and started snickering and making jokes about it to the other young man who was bagging at the adjacent lane. I was quite stunned. The clerk checking me out was a woman several years old than myself. It would have been nice if she'd reprimanded the young man. She said nothing. I was so angry that I just left. But I wish I had said something to him myself.

If I had to take DH and DS with me to prove I was buying for my family, my grocery bill would be three times what it is now. It is kind of embarrassing when I have to tell DH "put it back" or "we don't need that".

If I had to take DH and DS with me to prove I was buying for my family, my grocery bill would be three times what it is now. It is kind of embarrassing when I have to tell DH "put it back" or "we don't need that".

If I take DH to the store I'm pretty much guaranteed to spend about $30 more than I intended to.